Blair Paddock is a journalist at WTTW News, the PBS affiliate in Chicago. She reports on prisons and covers themes related to law and legal affairs, including litigation and federal legislation. Blair's work has been featured in the Hyde Park Paper, WTTW/Chicago PBS, and The Nation.
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By: Blair Paddock
Four Illinois sheriff’s offices defied the state’s sanctuary laws and transferred individuals into Department of Homeland Security custody in 2024, according to a new report.
By: Blair Paddock
On Friday, the CTA filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Federal Transit Administration seeking an immediate restoration of the funds for the two projects.
By: Blair Paddock
The CTA’s South Terminal at 95th/Dan Ryan on the Red Line opened in April 2018. A plan to extend the Red Line would connect the terminal to 130th Street. (Chicago Transit Authority / Flickr)
By: Blair Paddock
The Illinois State Capitol is pictured on Feb. 17, 2026. (Nick Blumberg / WTTW News)
By: Blair Paddock
Over the past five years, 59 petitions have been filed with the Illinois Department of Corrections from those incarcerated in Illinois state prisons requesting transfers all over the world. Only two people have been approved, and two more are pending.
By: Blair Paddock
At Heartland, immigrant children who crossed the U.S. border have received residential and medical care, education and legal services before being connected with permanent homes.
By: Blair Paddock
Under two different Illinois laws, people charged with sex offenses are subject to indefinite detention. Some people who’ve only been charged with a crime — never convicted or sentenced — can spend the rest of their lives at a correctional center.
By: Blair Paddock
The switch to digitized mail for incarcerated people has had little impact on the drug exposures the policy sought to stop, according to new data from the Illinois Department of Corrections.
By: Blair Paddock
Host Brandis Friedman and audience members put questions to a Chicago Police Department official, leaders of local anti-violence nonprofits and community-police organizations to try and assess the current state of community and police relationships.
By: Blair Paddock
Albums recorded in Midwest jails and prisons that will be spun at the gallery Walls Turned Sideways on June 12. After the live listening event, a group discussion will allow audience members to debrief the music.
